The dp160 concentrates all the know-how of Gilles Douziech and Eric Poix for the design of high-end isodynamic speakers, thought for the most demanding music lovers. They are composed of two bass / medium membranes with a total area of 0.36 m2. This equipment operates according to the exclusive principle PPBM* and are calibrated in their tension in order to obtain a more extensive and linear bass.The TW116 ribbon tweeter is mounted in a decoupled panel made in Finnish birch-tree, profiled for a perfect dispersion of high frequencies in space.The filter located at the base of the wooden panel is made with very high quality components manufactured in France: air choke of strong section, polypropylene capacitors with tin structure and non-inductive resistors.Gilles Douziech and Eric Poix imagined the dp160 as an uncompromising speaker for you to live all the intensity of the concert in your living room. The subtle blend of steel and birch-tree from Finland make it unique object that will never go out of style.Listening to the Diptyque dp160 will transport you to the most beautiful concert halls and make you feel the physical presence of the performers.*PPBM: Patented Push Pull Bipolar Magnet system, allowing an extended response in the bass and transient levels perfectly controlled

When we listen to live music, we are not the least bit concerned about where the musicians are located in the room and if we move about the room, we experience the music wherever we are. Shouldn't a loudspeaker release music into the room in the same way? Conventional speaker systems, however, cannot faithfully recreate music as we hear it in a live setting. No matter how large or expensive they are, whatever type of cabinet design, drive units, cone materials, toe-in, or crossover techniques are implemented, directional speakers will always YELL in your face, to a certain extent.

At Heed Audio, we have found that loudspeakers with a non-directional radiation pattern are best able to simply let the music into the room. At the same time, other things begin to happen. Rather than feeling compelled to sit rigidly in the “sweet spot”, it is possible to move to the right and left, forward or backward, up or down, and the music follows. As a further benefit of using suitable conventional drive units in an angle wide off-axis, there is no need to restrain high-frequency energy in order to tame the tweeter’s on-axis response. High-pitched tones of percussion instruments like cymbals and hi-hats, but also horns or strings can be reproduced with life-like impact, vibrancy and dynamics without ever getting strident.

The Heed Enigma 5 delivers an almost uncanny sense of “being there” with the musicians and instruments. It seems to transform the domestic listening space into the concert hall, or jazz club, where the music is fully present wherever you might be sitting. Tonality is natural and balanced all around the room, with fewer of the peaks and dips that occur when a speaker has to aim its output directly at the listener. The radical approach of this unique loudspeaker, however, only begins with nondirectionality.

The cabinet design of the Enigma looks simple, but is actually very sophisticated on the inside: hidden behind its understated façade it employs a unique solution ? the TMR™ loading of its bass-driver. TMR™ combines two normally ‘either/or’ loading principles: transmission line (‘TM’) and bass-reflex (‘R’), resulting in an exceptional bass response which defies the compact physical size of the Enigma 5 and successfully unites the exceptionally deep and voluminous bass of a ‘quarter-wave’ labyrinth with the remarkably fast and dynamic bottom-line drive of a correct bass-reflex tuning.